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• Almost forty years after its first release, “The Moon and the Melodies” by Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd is being reissued on vinyl for the first time – remastered from the original tapes by Robin Guthrie himself.

  The Moon and the Melodies is a unique album in the Cocteau Twins’ catalog – unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, led by the free-form improvisations of Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had fallen into their orbit as if by divine intervention. Building on the atmospheric bliss of Victorialand, released the same year, it signaled a possible future for the trio, but it was a path they would never take again.

  In the years that followed, The Moon and the Melodies has attracted a passionate following. The most atmospheric tracks regularly